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Posted: Sept 05 2006 at 2:11pm | IP Logged Quote doris
Hello all

I really need some sage advice! My nearly 6yo dd is paralysed by fear of the supernatural. 'Scary witches' apparently inhabit all sorts of nooks and crannies in the house, and she won't go up or downstairs without someone going with her. She's had lots of trouble with nightmares and has great difficulty going to sleep.

Poor little thing! I know that all of the above is pretty commonplace. But it's a bit more complicated since a friend of hers told her to say 'Come down evil spirits' -- and she did. (She told me later. I spoke to the boy's mother about it and after some probing it emerges he got it from Scooby-Doo. Yikes.) I explained that this was not a good thing to say, and that God is more powerful than evil spirits but even so it's not good to ask them to come. We also got out the holy water and said the prayer to St Michael, both of which she found reassuring.

But then a while later she said she'd said it again, but this time 'Come down Lucifer'. (We'd just started the Lovasik Bible which opens with a paragraph on the subject.) Once again I reassured her, said a prayer, told her to say the name of Jesus if she felt like saying it again, and also told her that since she'd been baptised and was under the age of reason (I didn't put it like that), God would sort it all out. But she said that she couldn't help saying it under her breath and was really really upset by it.

What should I make of all this? Have I overreacted? Is this normal? It just seems far from ideal to me, not least because she's so upset by it. She's a very sensitive and imaginative child for whom even the Sorcerer's Apprentice section of Fantasia is terrifying. I wish she'd never even heard of witches but they're all over the place.

I'd really appreciate any advice.


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Posted: Sept 05 2006 at 3:25pm | IP Logged Quote Philothea
Wow, I would be very unnerved, too. Can you bring her to talk to the Priest? Maybe he can help. It might reassure her to have someone with even more authority in that area than you come and talk to her, and maybe even do a blessing to send any evil spirits away. He's probably even seen this before in kids and can advise you on what to do.

Most of all, keep praying. I'll say a prayer for you as well.
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